How some big magazine gets it totally wrong…

Last week, on the plane from BKK to BRU, I found a copy of “Gourmet, the magazine of good living“, edition of May 2009. On the cover was something that was supposed to be a picture of Belgian Fries. The front page also mentioned the “recipe is on page 15″, so, as you can guess, I flipped over to that page instantly. But what a disappointment it was …

Pretending to be a leading food magazine and not getting a basic recipe like French BelgianFries right? Shame on them …

OK, the front cover picture does look awful. I didn’t even recognize it as a paper cone with fries!

So, just for the record: your first frying should be like “cooking the potatoes”, it takes some time, a minute or 4-5 depending on the potatoes. The second frying is a “flash fry”, very short time at a high temperature. Not the other way around as stated in the article above. As editors of a food magazine they should know better…

A scan of their recipe is below:

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So, can anyone share the best recipe for cooking them? Only if you think if your recipe is the best…

Im playing around with some mixes for mayonnaise. started with some simple ingredients: garlic, dried tomato, olives, paprika. and then moved on to some exciting one: dried jalapeño peppers, salmon, oysters, surimi, cream cheese, and found some very good mixes (and some very bad ones too!). Would you share one? I promise i’ll post my top ones next monday.

I’m still compiling this page and need your help: let me know how you call Fries in your language, if possible with the phonetic transcription. My email address: webmaster@belgianfries.com.
Soundsamples (WAV or other formats) are welcome …